https://videopress.com/v/YDsx5Nap?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true By Michael Tyler, EJS Poet-in-Residence Pick your plagues, your afflictions, Your calamitous conditions And blend them in a lethal combination. Add your viruses, your germs, Your parasitic worms And prepare them for deadly dissemination. Cast their carnage, their rife, Their contempt for all life, Their competence for devastation. And with combined ferocity They won’t measure to me. I am the most malignant contamination. My toxins, my gloom, My decay andContinueContinue reading “‘Know My Name’ by Michael Tyler”
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‘Crazy, Right?’ by Michael Tyler
https://videopress.com/v/LbjktmCj?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fequaljusticesociety.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F07%2Fcaption-video-project-july-16-2026-at-17.25.10-1_mp4_avc_240p.original.jpg&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true By Michael Tyler, EJS Poet-in-Residence “He who increases knowledge, increases pain.” I was fifteen when I first heard that maxim, a surprising fact to me at the time considering that I had been attending Catholic schools my entire educational life. The quote comes from Ecclesiastes, a book in the Old Testament, and is attributedContinueContinue reading “‘Crazy, Right?’ by Michael Tyler”
‘This Land’ by Michael Tyler
By Michael Tyler, EJS Poet-in-Residence I spent the week leading up to the semiquincentennial of our country’s independence, reading several essays, editorials, and social media posts about what our nation has become and who we are as a people. Most articles struck me as political postmortems and social autopsies, reflecting the current mood of theContinueContinue reading “‘This Land’ by Michael Tyler”